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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Wales · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Wrexham County Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Wrexham website
25,455 approved · 2,070 refused · 1,583 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jun 1996 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 6 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Source: Welsh Government / DataMapWales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Homebase D.I.Y. Retail Store Plas Coch Retail Park Plas Coch Road Wrexham
Received 30 Nov 2000Kronospan Ltd Chirk Wrexham
Received 30 Nov 2000Ysgol Morgan Llwyd Cefn Road Wrexham
Received 19 Jan 2001Land to the rear of Nos. 1 and 2 The Woodlands Chester Road Gresford Wrexham
Received 19 Oct 2000The Laurels 4 Darland Lane Rossett Wrexham LL120EL
Received 18 Oct 2000Gardden Hall Ruabon Wrexham
Received 13 Nov 2000Land Adjacent To New Mills Ty Gwyn Glyn Ceiriog Wrexham
Received 4 Sept 20008 Cae Gabriel Penycae Wrexham LL142PH
Received 15 Aug 2000Wynnstay Hall Ruabon Wrexham
Received 14 Aug 2000Lidl Foodstore Gwersyllt Wrexham
Received 27 Oct 2000Land adjacent to McDonalds Restaurant Chirk Park Chirk Wrexham
Received 26 Oct 2000Seilo Chapel Chapel Street/Merlin Street Johnstown Wrexham
Received 26 Oct 2000Pontfadog Post Office Pontfadog Llangollen
Received 26 Oct 2000Land Off Stanley Road Ponciau Wrexham
Received 25 Oct 2000Civic Amenity Site Victoria Road Wrexham
Received 18 Oct 2000Kasuga Plastics Wynnstay Technology Park Ruabon Wrexham
Received 18 Oct 2000Ski Slope Site Road To Wilderness Mill House Llay Wrexham LL12 8RU
Received 16 Oct 2000Land at Hope Street/Old Mold Road Gwersyllt Wrexham
Received 18 Oct 200020 Bryngwyn Heol Caradoc Coedpoeth Wrexham
Received 3 Oct 2000Mount View Tainant Penycae Wrexham
Received 3 Oct 2000Cae Mor Ucha Pontfadog Llangollen
Received 3 Oct 200012 Terrig Way Summerhill Wrexham LL114YJ
Received 29 Nov 2000Former Halls of Residence Land Off Hullah Lane Wrexham LL139NL
Received 29 Nov 2000Garden Cottage Plas Issa Penycae Wrexham LL141TU
Received 29 Nov 2000Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
Planning procedures in Wales differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Wrexham County Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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